Public Space video

Public Space video work may be watched as experimentation1 on public art policy implementation in Helsinki city through an audiovisual structure. The visual content oscillates from architectural city shots to digitally manipulated images2 originating from Helsinki city public art database. On top of the visual content runs both texts related to Helsinki city policy toward art and construction affairs3, together with sentences approaching concept of object from dialectic materialism perspective4. The audio part includes recordings from the video shots and electronic music live performance5. This superposition of media sources produces an overload of information, both a desirable audiovisual accumulation and critical stand similar to Situationist collage movie technique. Public Space video work operates as the ever-going complicated dialogue between architecture/construction and the exact position of art within.

Notes and references:

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1- Public space process by Gregoire Rousseau and Monika Czyzyk lasted a week time, in a very intense and spontaneous working manner. The editing is done in real time while listening to audio track. We recorded several sessions and selected the one we thought was better fit.

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2- The images from Helsinki city database are displayed using Gregoire Rousseau’s real time video software EXCERPT.

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3- Public art must be funded up to 1% of the new construction budget by private real estate company.

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4- Reading “Dialectic materialism” by Henri Lefebvre.

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5- Live performance for public launch of Rabrab journal #01, Gregoire Rousseau/Emma Jääskaläinen/Joakim Pusenius in Vapaataitentila.

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EXCERPT video software supported by AVEK and TAIKE.

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The video screened is the last video edit done. The video quality is 720p, H.264 codec at 10Mb/s. This quality is needed in order to run properly EXCERPT video software.

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As it is the last video edit, it unfortunately does not name and thanks crucial support. We fix this here: Thanks to Emma Jääskaläinen for singing in Rabrab launch, Samuli Tanner for audio post mastering, Jarkko Räsänen.